What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm You’re probably in the final stages of a Ph.D. or otherwise finding a way to make your living out of reading. You are one of the literati. Other people’s grammatical mistakes make you insane. Dedicated Reader Literate Good Citizen Book Snob [...]
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Shelf-Awareness Reading Questionnaire
Hooray for pointless navel-gazing! On your nightstand now: This must be divided into categories, actually. There are too many. Current & upcoming for school: Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf; Ulysses, by James Joyce; Edward II, by Christopher Marlowe; Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih. Purchased today: Jpod, by Douglas Coupland; The Papers [...]
Glad We’ve Got This Sorted Out
My grade eleven English teacher would be proud. You’re Prufrock and Other Observations! by T.S. Eliot Though you are very short and often overshadowed, your voice is poetic and lyrical. Dark and brooding, you see the world as a hopeless effort of people trying to impress other people. Though you make reference to almost everything, [...]
Six Things and Two Challenges
Egad, I’ve been tagged. First, here are some six things: Six Random Things About Myself: 1. You know how people can roll their tongues? I can do that. I can also roll my tongue upside-down (like an inverted ‘u’). What you have to do is brace the sides of your tongue against your bottom teeth, [...]
Top 106 Books on LibraryThing
Yes, it’s another meme — but this one involves LibraryThing, my favouritest website in the whole wide world, and so I could hardly exist resist. (I totally just typed “exist” instead of “resist” — but what the hey, I’m leaving it). My variation on the rules as laid out below is that I haven’t struck [...]
From A to Z
I found this meme over on things mean a lot. I believe you’re supposed to list favourite books as well as favourite authors, but I haven’t done so because I’m difficult that way. Some days I just don’t know what to do with me. So my list is authors only, on the grounds that I [...]
Meme: 100 Books
Look at the list of (100) books below. Bold the ones you’ve read. Italicize the ones you want to read. Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in. (Movies don’t count.) 1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) 2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) 3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) 4. Gone With [...]
Eva’s Meme
Better late than never, no? Here is Eva’s original post. Which book do you irrationally cringe away from reading, despite seeing only positive reviews? There are many. Mostly romances, especially that strange brand of “inspiring” Christian romance novels. In my experience, those are almost inevitably bad. I often shy away from reading books just because [...]